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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B2420 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Phocas; Constantinople Denomination: Solidus Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 603-604 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.20 Weight (g): 4.48 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0469. Sotheby, 12th July 1954. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Phocas facing, bearded, wearing cross topped crown, chlamys, with loros scarf draped over shoulders, holding mappa aloft in r. hand, and cross-topped sceptre in l. hand. Reverse: Victoria facing, standing, holding globus cruciger in l. hand, and chrismon topped staff in r. hand. Inscriptions: Obverse: O N FOCAS PЄRP AV- (Our lord Phocas, eternal Augustus). Reverse: VICTORI A AVCC (Imperial victory). Mint mark: CONOB. Control mark: B (2). Bibliography: MIB II 2
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3 Related People | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Phocas Byzantine c.547 610 | |
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